Creating, evolving and innovating over decades takes great stamina. Art Guide Australia’s latest podcast series features conversations with three established…
The Age | Seeing like Jeffrey Smart: how empty streets gave me a new insight
There was both rain and sunshine; buildings and roads appeared brighter than the darkened clouds. In a strange stillness, I…
The Age | Artist Danila Vassilieff was selling his house. There was just one catch
When Elizabeth Hamill visited Stonygrad in Warrandyte in 1947, the owner agreed to sell the house on one condition: that…
Art Guide Australia | Review: The 22nd Biennale of Sydney makes witnesses out of us all
This could be the catch-cry of the Biennale which, titled from the Wiradjuri word NIRIN and meaning “the edge,” delivers the artist…
Art Guide Australia | Nell: It’s the Beginning of a New Age
One of Nell’s paintings, delivered in black, gold and white, declares, “It’s the beginning of a new age.” Originally found…
The Age | Around the galleries: Robert Fielding, Joy Hester and West Space
ROUTES / ROOTS | Robert Fielding. Robert Fielding traverses time. He melds traditional Indigenous cultural forms with contemporary art practices,…
Art Guide Australia | Podcast: The future with Cyrus Tang and Lucy McRae
“I would ask you the question, does it help to feel scared?” wonders Lucy McRae. How do you think about…
Art Guide Australia | Interview: Eugenia Lim on ethics, absurdity and subverting stereotypes
With a practice encompassing video, performance and installation, Eugenia Lim is an Australian artist of Chinese-Singaporean descent. Lim’s major exhibition The…
The Age | Problematic or romantic? Why self-taught artists don’t quite fit
If you ask Julian Burnside – the venerated lawyer, human rights advocate and art collector – why he bought the…
Art Guide Australia | Podcast: Parenting and creating with Tai Snaith and Ross Coulter
Raising children, having an art practice and making it through isolation—how do you do it in a way that works…
